Their Quotes

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.